1. The human right to water -- 2. How much water is there and whose is it? the world's stocks and flows of water and international river basins -- 3. Pictures of the future : a review of global water resources projections -- 4. Water for food : how much will be needed? -- 5. Desalination : straw into gold or gold into water -- 6. The removal of dams : a new dimension to an old debate -- 7. Water reclamation and reuse : waste not, want not -- Water briefs -- Data section.